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. 2018 Apr 24;3(Suppl 2):e000626.
doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2017-000626. eCollection 2018.

Digital health vision: could MomConnect provide a pragmatic starting point for achieving universal health coverage in South Africa and elsewhere?

Garrett Livingston Mehl  1 , Tigest Tamrat  1 , Sanjana Bhardwaj  2 , Sean Blaschke  3 , Alain Labrique  4
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Digital health vision: could MomConnect provide a pragmatic starting point for achieving universal health coverage in South Africa and elsewhere?

Garrett Livingston Mehl et al. BMJ Glob Health. .
No abstract available

Keywords: child health; health education and promotion; health systems; maternal health.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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Enabling digital health architecture detailing digital health interventions in MomConnect for strengthening universal health coverage for pregnant women (adapted from18).
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